Biden admin spent millions on DEI grants for K-12 schools
January 6, 2025
A new report details millions of taxpayer dollars spent on funding diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at K-12 schools around the country. Critics say such spending diverts funding away from core educational objectives.
Parents Defending Education released the report, which documents a litany of examples and several common avenues to get DEI into the classroom at taxpayer expense.
PDE reported 30 grants totaling more than $32 million have been awarded that at least partially focus on DEI in the classroom since President Joe Biden took office.
According to PDE, those 30 grants either “discuss diversity, equity, or inclusion or explicitly explain how the project is intended to improve outcomes for a specific demographic group.”
The report also points to tens of millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded education grants that fund similar programs, such as millions of dollars for consultants that promote critical race theory.
This theory, commonly called CRT, is based on the idea that the U.S. was founded on racism and remains inherently racist to this day. CRT teaches American history through the lens of racism and slavery, hence citing not 1776 as America’s founding but 1619, when the first African slaves arrived in the colonies.